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I have been feeling poorly these past couple of weeks with a chest infection. It’s slowly starting to clear (I think), but I have been a bit lazy with my cooking because I haven’t felt 100%. Looking back at my diary I see that I didn’t eat as badly as I imagined and did start […]

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A friend of mine was recently lamenting yet another week of eating and drinking more than she should: how she had broken her diet yet again and she felt awful about being such a failure … even more so because this was part of a regular pattern where good days or weeks deteriorated into bad […]

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I made my mum’s 60th birthday cake on Sunday using the recipe described in my last blog, and also decorated it on Monday. In fact, the sponge was a slight disaster, because I added a packet of caramel chocolate drops I had been given at last year’s Cake and Bake show, and I forgot to […]

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It’s birthday season for friends and family at the moment, and so I have been baking cakes (which is one of my favourite hobbies anyway). I use a fail-safe sponge recipe from Nigella’s Domestic Goddess book which forms the basis of many of my cakes, and so I thought it would be worth sharing here, […]

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I bought Jamie Oliver’s 15 minute meals at the end of last year, and whilst I would not recommend it as a quick way to cook (it’s not unless you have every gadget in the kitchen and someone to do your washing up for you) the recipes are easily adaptable and very tasty. I thought […]

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Andrew bought me a sous-vide set for Christmas: a water bath, vacuum set and the food safe bags to cook food in. At Christmas I made spiced apples in there, and last week I experimented twice. Firstly I tried sous-vide salmon. This was not as successful as I had hoped. I added a little lemon […]

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So, week one of the new year was great for me – I pointed religiously and lost 2lbs over the week. I was very strict but it wasn’t too hard to cook meals which were low points (pesto pasta bulked out with broccoli, sous vide salmon, prawn and chilli pasta, beef mince stew with dumplings, […]

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Well, it is another year and a new start for me, like so many others. Whilst I was miserable at being sick all over Christmas, it did have a benefit of allowing me to lose 3.5lbs, unheard of around Christmas! That’s not as impressive as it sounds, because I did stuff my face for the […]

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Well, that’s Christmas done and dusted, and I spent most of it suffering from a stinking cold. I finished work on Friday 21st and that seemed to be my body’s sign to let being ill take over. I am still not 100% but certainly on the mend. I did try to eat as normally as […]

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I feel pretty well organised for Christmas – my edible presents are almost finished, the Ocado shop is due to arrive tomorrow, and we are collecting the turkey and meat from Frank Godfrey butcher on Monday. Today is my last day to relax before the cookery onslaught, and we’ll be having a nice simple meal […]

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